

somehow, there doesn’t appear to be a legal system with a metal sphere gavel and the social worker from Mrs Doubtfire presiding just yet
The adoptive and biological parents couldn’t decide on which planet’s law should apply, and mutually agreed to Sisko as a mediator. Which seems questionable, but at least they addressed it, I suppose.
And yeah, there are no winners here, but all other things being equal, it probably should be policy to return children to their birth families.


















Yeah, the episode goes out of its way to establish that both families are very well-intentioned.